Headings given to the notes include: “The florid rich, first ? phases of poetry, as in the Oriental poems” (Camden Edition, vi, 96) ; “Europe” (vi, 218) ; “Milton —1608 —1674”; “The Teutonic includes the Scandinavian” (vi, 210); “(passing through the town of Borgo in old Finland, Russia,)” (vi, 95-96); “Specimen Days” (Diary in Canada, page 64); “—the story of Dante’s ‘Journey through Hell’ ” (Camden Edition, vii, 11) ; “Mithras, the grand deity of ancient Persians, supposed to be the sun” (vii, 22); ” ‘law’ ‘lex’ ‘lux’ light? Alcoran signifies law” (vi, 214); “Of the Democratic Party 58—’59—60.” On verso of “Europe”: “Two Samples of Voltaires writings” (Camden Edition, vi, 218); notes on Voltaire. On verso of “Milton —1608 —1674”: “Burns, born 1757 died 1796—aged 39” (vii, 8). Miscellaneous jottings on poetry and on the geography and population of Europe, a list of synonyms for the word “poet,” geographical and ethnological definitions, observations on Finland copied from the New York Tribune for October, 1855, notes on events in 1854 and 1855 intended as a reminder for Specimen Days, names of Italian poets, scraps on Mithras and various religions of the Orient, a vitriolic remark on the planks of the Democratic platform, 1858-1860, and notes on literary men.